The Department of Justice Creates Section Dedicated to Denaturalization Cases

justice.gov ^ | February 26, 2020 | DOJ

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The Civil Division’s Denaturalization Section Will Investigate and Litigate the Denaturalization of Terrorists, War Criminals, Sex Offenders, and Other Fraudsters

The Department of Justice today announced the creation of a section dedicated to investigating and litigating revocation of naturalization.  The Denaturalization Section will join the existing sections within the Civil Division’s Office of Immigration Litigation—the District Court Section and the Appellate Section.  This move underscores the Department’s commitment to bring justice to terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other fraudsters who illegally obtained naturalization. 

While the Office of Immigration Litigation already has achieved great success in the denaturalization cases it has brought, winning 95 percent of the time, the growing number of referrals anticipated from law enforcement agencies motivated the creation of a standalone section dedicated to this important work.

“When a terrorist or sex offender becomes a U.S. citizen under false pretenses, it is an affront to our system—and it is especially offensive to those who fall victim to these criminals,” said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt.  “The Denaturalization Section will further the Department’s efforts to pursue those who unlawfully obtained citizenship status and ensure that they are held accountable for their fraudulent conduct.”

Denaturalization cases require the government to show that a defendant’s naturalization was “illegally procured” or “procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation . . . .”  8 U.S.C. § 1451.  Civil denaturalization cases have no statute of limitations, and the Department has successfully denaturalized numerous categories of individuals who have illegally obtained citizenship, including terrorists and other national security threats, war criminals, human rights violators, sex offenders, and other fraudsters.

National Security/Terrorism

• U.S. v. al Dahab, No. 15-cv-5414 (D.D.C.).  Successful civil denaturalization of individual convicted of terrorism offenses in Egypt who admitted recruiting for al Qaeda within the United States and running a communications hub in California for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.  The defendant was denaturalized while in Egypt, stripped of his passport, and prevented from returning to the United States.
• U.S. v. Kariye, No. 15-cv-1343 (D. Or.).  Successful civil denaturalization of individual who received military training in a jihadist training camp in Afghanistan; coordinated with Osama bin Laden and other known terrorist leaders; and was associated with terrorist organizations including Makhtab Al-Khidamat, a U.S. government-designated terrorist organization and pre-cursor to al Qaeda.  The Office of Immigration Litigation coordinated a settlement that facilitated the defendant’s self-deportation to Somaliland despite his presence on No Fly List.
• U.S. v. Hamed, No. 2:18-cv-0424 (W.D. Mo.).  Successful civil denaturalization of an individual convicted of conspiring to illegally transfer more than $1 million to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions and of obstructing internal revenue laws with respect to tax-exempt charities.  In furtherance of those crimes, the defendant regularly authorized and transferred tax-exempt funds from a non-profit organization’s accounts in the United States to an account in Jordan controlled by a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

War Crimes & Human Rights Violators

• U.S. v. Dzeko, No. 18-cv-759 (D.D.C.).  Successful civil denaturalization of an individual who was convicted in Bosnia of executing eight unarmed civilians and POWs during the Balkans conflict.  Defendant was denaturalized while incarcerated in a Bosnian prison, and thereby prevented from returning to the United States upon his release.
• U.S. v. Yetisen, No. 18-cv-570 (D. Or.).  Successful civil denaturalization of an individual who pled guilty in Bosnia of executing six unarmed civilians and POWs during the Balkans conflict. 

Sex Offenders

• U.S. v. Omopariola (N.D. Tex.). Successful civil denaturalization of an individual engaged in sexual contact with a 7-year-old family member.
• U.S. v. Lopez, No. 18-cv-00527 (D. Md.).  Successful civil denaturalization of an individual who sexually abused a minor victim for multiple years.
• U.S. v. Arizmendi, No. 4:15-cv-454 (S.D. Tex.).  Successful civil denaturalization of an individual convicted of multiple sex offenses, including as to students.  The defendant was denaturalized while incarcerated in a Mexican prison related to a sex offense, and thereby prevented from returning to the United States upon his release.

Fraudsters & Other Criminals

• U.S. v. Mondino, No. 18-cv-21840 (S.D. Fla.).  Successful civil denaturalization of an individual convicted of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Export-Import Bank of more than $24 million, resulting in more than $12 million in unrecovered losses. Because of the denaturalization proceedings, the defendant self-deported.
• U.S. v. Warsame cases, Nos. 17-cv-5023, -5024, -5025, -5027 (D. Minn.).  Successful civil denaturalizations of four individuals who fraudulently claimed to be a family to gain admission to the United States through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

Topic(s): 

Immigration

Component(s): 

Civil Division

Press Release Number: 

20-231

 

[RightFighter]

Ilhan Omar hardest hit?

[EinNYC]

Ilhan Omar should be first on the list to be deported.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Often times the problem is that you denaturalize them, but then you can’t get their home country (or any others) to actually take them off your hands.

[SteelCowboy]

We should play hardball, they wont accept their criminal nationals? we won’t accept their goods or travel from their country. Of course the global elites would never allow such a thing, so we accept the trash of the world and then we make a fuss about it, but ultimately nothing changes.

[bigbob]

Maybe a one-way ticket home would solve that?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Or put them in a rubber dinghy, tow them out beyond the 200-mile limit and cut them loose.

[Liz]

Ilhan Omar Pushing Agendas Of 57 Islamic Terror Countries
Strip Omar's citizenship (if she has it). Americans will not tolerate this Congress-thingy
a paid foreign agent, in cahoots with Americas' sworn enemies....despots, terrorists and dictators.

The rag-headed creep has an agenda no one could ever imagine.
Omar has been very busy-----setting up her world-wide terrorist connections.

Just a few weeks after her US election to Minnesota's state legislature, she was back in Somalia, the homeland "she fled in fear."
The sap-happy Omar is chatting up then-Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a favorite for re-election.
He reportedly invited her---a US state legislator--- to appear beside him prior to the Somali (cough) election taking place.

The Minn legislator Endorsed Somalia’s New President.
Four Days Later, Omar’s BIL Had a Powerful Job in the Somali Administration.

What was the deal she made with the corrupt-ridden Somali govt? Are the violent Somalians she once fled,
privy to US security reports from Omar's current position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee? Duh.

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A foray into foreign politics, should have disqualified her from getting US security clearance.
How did she get into the us? How did she get elected? How did she get US security clearance in Congress?
How many US govt documents has she falsified? ////////

The Minnesota Congress-thingy conducting (gag) US foreign policy w/ Turkey's Erdogan.

Penlosi put Omar on the US Foreign Affairs Committee.....at Omar's request.
Erdogan and his Muslim cohorts know all they need to know.......thanks to Omar and Penlosi.

[zeugma]

Ilhan Omar should be first on the list to be deported.

That would probably be a good start. I think the "Justice" Department should invite Omar and her former 'husband' down to their local office and take some DNA samples. We can clear up the entire situation pretty quickly with that. One way or another.

[Liz]

Must read link: German “humanitarian” learns truths about Muslims.......to her infinite regret.

https://arbeitsgruppefluchtundmenschenrechte.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/interview-with-rebecca-sommer-english/
She enumerates all the negatives we’ve observed for years.

Too bad she got woked the hard way....thru horrendous personal experiences.

BTW, she mentions Somali refugees as the worst of the worst.

[USS Alaska]

Thanks for posting these doj articles. More people that get educated about the doj, both plus and minus, the better.

Maybe even 'perfect'.

[Starcitizen]

Followed closely by Tlaib and Ovomit, after a vacation at Guantanamo Bay

[bitt]

perhaps this is also pointing to BHO.

[bitt]

U.S. v. Warsame cases, Nos. 17-cv-5023, -5024, -5025, -5027 (D. Minn.). Successful civil denaturalizations of four individuals who fraudulently claimed to be a family to gain admission to the United States through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

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mutts be scrambling??